Politics, Religion, and Love

Download or read book Politics, Religion, and Love written by Naomi Levine and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Edwin Montagu, British Secretary of State for India in 1917-22. Conservative Party opposition to his policies was accompanied by more or less openly expressed antisemitism (see the index). Ch. 23 (pp. 422-449), "Zionism: The Balfour Declaration, " traces the debate among British Jewry over the government's support for a Jewish state in Palestine. Montagu, like most of the Jewish establishment, attempted to prevent adoption of the Declaration, fearing that it would lead to perceptions that Jews were not loyal citizens in the countries of their residence and thus fuel antisemitism.